John Ford : Hollywood's Old Master - 95 edition

Summary: John Ford remains the most honored director in Hollywood history, having won six Academy Awards and four New York Film Critics Awards. Drawing upon extensive written and oral history, Ronald L. David explores Ford's career from his silent classic, The Iron Horse, through the transition to sound, and then into the pioneer years of location filming, the golden years of Hollywood, and the movement toward television. During his career, Ford made such classics as Stagecoa

ch, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, and The Searchers-136 pictures in all, 54 of them Westerns. The complexity of his personality comes alive here through the eyes of his colleagues, friends, relatives, film critics, and the actors he worked with, including John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Hara, and Katharine Hepburn.

Summary: John Ford remains the most honored director in Hollywood history, having won six Academy Awards and four New York Film Critics Awards. Drawing upon extensive written and oral history, Ronald L. David explores Ford's career from his silent classic, The Iron Horse, through the transition to sound, and then into the pioneer years of location filming, the golden years of Hollywood, and the movement toward television. During his career, Ford made such classics as Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, and The Searchers-136 pictures in all, 54 of them Westerns. The complexity of his personality comes alive here through the eyes of his colleagues, friends, relatives, film critics, and the actors he worked with, including John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Hara, and Katharine Hepburn....show less

Ronald L. Davis, Professor of History at Southern Methodist University, is the author of numerous books on American culture, including Hollywood Beauty: Linda Darnell and the American Dream, also published by the University of Oklahoma Press.

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''Davis . . . presents a lively and well-researched study of Ford's life and work. Davis draws on the recollections of the actors who worked frequently with Ford . . .to document Ford's tyranny on the set, which intimidated his cast but wrung brilliant performances from them.''

--Publishers Weekly

''[An] excellent biography . . . Davis makes a major contribution to the literature on John Ford . . . [He] skillfully links the films with the man.''

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